Workshop on School Safety Policy begins in Bengaluru

All schools in the State will soon have to draw up customised school disaster management plans for the event of a natural or man-made disaster. The National Disaster Management Authority has come up with guidelines for the School Safety Policy. To help spread awareness about this and to ensure that...
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Universities are failing their students through poor feedback practices

Educators and students often struggle to learn from each other through the use of feedback. Our research into feedback practices has found that students and staff find feedback practices largely unsustainable, de-motivating and without opportunity for improvement. Researchers generally describe current feedback practices as lacking in detail, difficult to...
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IIT Ropar to host convocation at new campus

New Delhi The Indian Institute of Technology Ropar (IIT Ropar) will host its sixth convocation ceremony on November 28 at its sprawling 500-acre permanent new campus on the banks of the river Sutlej. The new campus, which will be operational in 2018, has been recently awarded the five-star green...
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